@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • 7 months agoCan Trump still run for president now that he's a convicted felon?message-square104fedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down111file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink8•edit-27 months agoI would say just don’t break any laws then, but laws can change and people are terrible. Edit: Pretty sure you’re all downvoting a misunderstanding. I’m saying I get why it’s a thing because people would convict their opponents. Not that I was actually saying well don’t break any laws.
minus-square@Pronelllink95•7 months agoSure, but a corrupt government can fabricate evidence to keep their enemies silenced. Look at Russia and their treatment of Alexei Navalny.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish43•7 months agoOr just regular ass black people in America.
minus-square@eltrain123link8•7 months agoMight be a reasonable argument if you didn’t have 76 years of his rotten behavior as precedent in processing the decision made by a jury of his peers…
minus-square@lolrightythenlink2•7 months agoEspecially when you get into archaic laws that aren’t enforced or widely known.
I would say just don’t break any laws then, but laws can change and people are terrible.
Edit: Pretty sure you’re all downvoting a misunderstanding.
I’m saying I get why it’s a thing because people would convict their opponents. Not that I was actually saying well don’t break any laws.
Sure, but a corrupt government can fabricate evidence to keep their enemies silenced.
Look at Russia and their treatment of Alexei Navalny.
Or just regular ass black people in America.
Or the topic of this post
Might be a reasonable argument if you didn’t have 76 years of his rotten behavior as precedent in processing the decision made by a jury of his peers…
A very naïve idea :-(
Especially when you get into archaic laws that aren’t enforced or widely known.